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Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
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Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#242This is stupid. The 300MB limit is still there. Just tried it using my iphone app and it popped up the error message saying your monthly limit is reached. Even though this might be technical glitch it shows two donkeys don't make a horse. How stupid to remove the limits from your documentation and then throw an error when one tries to upload from iphone.
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#243The number of people I've seen who have asked "how do I set up self hosting for photos now" after the Flickr announcement is kind of distressing for Yahoo!'s future product plans.
I'm slightly terrified Pro will go away; none of the new plans is at all appealing to me. I'd switch to 500px or self-host entirely, but that's a lot of work.
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
Although, for existing Pro users, it looks like they can continue renewing their Pro accounts [1]: * Starting on 5/20/2013, we will no longer be offering new Flickr Pro subscriptions. After that point, the following things will happen: * * Recurring Pro users currently have the ability to renew. * [1] https://secure.flickr.com/help/limits/#150487675
I saw that - but I haven't been able to find out what price we can renew at. If it's still at $25 - every pro user in the universe will renew. If it's even $50 - for unlimited storage (versus $500/year for 2 terabytes) - still sounds like a no brainer. I wonder if Yahoo/Flickr are really going to take that good a care of their existing pro users?
I believe, as of now, the price is still $25. From my own "manage your pro account page":
Your Flickr Pro subscription:
1-year Pro at $24.95 Your Pro account will renew automatically on 3rd September, 2013
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#245How can they give away 1TB of space for free? Because the cheapest 1TB drive I saw was $67. Unless.. they assume that only a very small percentage of people will use it. So if on average, everyone still only uses about 1GB of space, then a 500gb you can get for $45. $45/500 = .09 so about 10 cents per person. With 25 million users that is about a $2.5 million investment. If the average user uses 10GB then that is $1.…
At the scale that Yahoo runs, 1TB is considerably cheaper than $67/TB. Remember that places like Yahoo and Google operate at levels where a file service issues a monitoring warning if there's less than a petabyte left.
True, but aren't they 'supposed' to buy high grade HDDs for datacenter usage?
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you continue to pay for the Pro account, you get no ads (the free tier is ad supported), unlimited storage space (no new plans get this, so this is a nice grandfathered bonus.. if you need more than 1TB that is) and photo stats. But yes, the difference between free and Pro is no longer as large of a distinction as it used to be.
Hmm, I guess I will degrade my account and flickr will lose a paying customer. Seems like most users either a) are resigned to seeing ads on every website or b) have installed an ad-blocker. I don't see how paying for ad removal can generate much money.
Keep in mind that the ad-free experience also means visitors don't see any ads when browsing your photos if you are a pro user. This may or may not be important to you, but is arguably worth the $25 per year for any use that approaches professional level.
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
I initially liked the new photostream layout, but after using the site for a little while, I think I prefer the old layout. The new site definitely looks more modern and glossy, but there's a reason museums don't display photos in a huge mosaic -- it makes it very hard to focus on and consider one image at a time. Now to browse someone's photos I need to go into the "one image at a time" viewer, which takes longer an…
I'm not quite sure how I got to it, but go to user's stream and then tack on a ?details=1 to the end of the URL. I have no idea if that's an intentionally preserved view or not, but it's more like you're looking for.
Thanks for that. Though there appears to be a bug - it says I have 0 photos (in the thing at the top).
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#2481TB isn't that impressive when you have to deal with a 300MB/month upload rate limit: http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/ It'd take 291 years to fill up the 1TB allowance: https://www.google.com/search?q=1TB+%2F+(300+MB%2Fmonth) (Also looks like there's a missing on that limits page, there.) Edit: Looks like the page is being edited right this moment - the page used to list the 300MB/month limit but was also mentionin…
Never knew Google Calculator could be used like that. Thanks.
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
I saw that - but I haven't been able to find out what price we can renew at. If it's still at $25 - every pro user in the universe will renew. If it's even $50 - for unlimited storage (versus $500/year for 2 terabytes) - still sounds like a no brainer. I wonder if Yahoo/Flickr are really going to take that good a care of their existing pro users?
I believe, as of now, the price is still $25. From my own "manage your pro account page": Your Flickr Pro subscription: 1-year Pro at $24.95 Your Pro account will renew automatically on 3rd September, 2013 https://secure.flickr.com/account/order/manage
Interesting. Yes, I'm seeing similarly - $44.95 on a two year basis, renewing next in September.
Re: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
#250I hate this new layout. Artistic images need space, especially images that aren't meant to be place together. Otherwise their color would collide with each other and ruin the visual experience for them. If flickr wants to become a social network that features family photos maybe that's the right layout, but I think most of the pro users weren't paying $25 a year for that purpose. Flickr is no longer a valid place to…
500px.com seems more geared towards professional photographers, if you're looking for such an option.